God's interest in every aspect of our lives

We often invite people over for dinner. My wife cleans and prepares our home and decorates the table beautifully, and I shut the garage doors. Why? Our garage is often a total mess, unfit for human eyes. We’d be embarrassed for discerning adults to observe such clutter, and we want a lovely evening, and the untidiness of the garage might nix that objective. The real issue, however, may be that we want our guests to believe we are organized, clean, and incapable of a garage like ours. We don’t want them concerned with the state of our garage.

Can we close the doors of certain rooms of our ethical lives so God won’t see the chaos, the contradictions, or the filth? Is it possible that there is a nook or cranny of our lives where God is unconcerned? We often say, “The devil is in the details.” But is God in the details? Can we be godly on Sundays and secular for the rest of the week? Whether we will admit it or not, our behavior says we believe that such deception is possible.

What is God concerned with on this earth anyway?

God made everything on this planet. This is why the Apostle Paul begins his sermon in Athens with “The God who made the world and everything in it.” The foundation for secular and biblical thinkers then and today is God. He made the world, us, and plant and animal life, and birthed wisdom. All genuine answers to life’s deep questions begin at this point. Without that, every man does what is right in his own eyes.

Because God is the creator of all things, there is nothing in which God is not interested. There is no sacred/secular divide, and there is a right and wrong way to do things. Creators such as artists, inventors, computer coders, estate owners, and authors are interested in every aspect of their creations. God as Creator is even more interested. Why? His creations make ours pale in comparison, and His designs live, breathe, and reflect His image. Like every creator, He knows how His creation works best and wants every life to reflect positively on His character.

Therefore, every aspect of life matters to God: work, leisure, family, physical, mental, spiritual—there is no limit to the list. It matters so much to Him that He has given us a living helper—the Holy Spirit. Our wills are the rheostats that mete out the amount of reflection we’re willing to submit to. We should ask God if we are deluding ourselves believing that we can shut Him out of any area of our lives. He will show us if we really want to see.